Transcript 311 ORP Site Presentation – Clark

Tank
Operations
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Washington River Protection
Solutions Analytical Needs and
Offsite Laboratory Work
Glen Clark
Principal Scientist, WRPS
2016 Annual ASP Workshop
Covington, KY
September 19-22, 2016
TOC-PRES-16-3353-VA
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Hanford Site Map
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Mount
Rainier
Mount
Adams
REDOX &
222-S Lab
T-Plant
U-Plant
B-Plant
PUREX
Waste Treatment Plant
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Hanford Radioactive Waste Tanks
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Waste Treatment and Immobilization
Plant (WTP)
Analytical
Laboratory
Command
Facility
Pretreatment Plant
Low Activity Waste
Vitrification Facility
High Level Waste
Vitrification Facility
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DOE ORP Mission Statement
The Office of River Protection’s mission is to safeguard
the nuclear waste stored in Hanford’s 177
underground tanks, and to manage the waste safely
and responsibly until it can be treated in the Waste
Treatment and Immobilization Plant for final
disposition.
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DOE ORP Prime Contractors
• Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI)
• Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS)
• Wastren Advantage, Inc. (WAI)
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ORP Goal for WTP by 2022
• Begin operations of the Low Activity Waste (LAW)
vitrification facility as soon as 2022
• Start process analyses at the Analytical Laboratory
• Begin operations of the support facilities
• LAW vitrification operations expected to produce
tens of thousands of low to no radioactive water
samples annually to be analyzed by offsite
subcontract laboratories
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222-S Analytical Laboratory Complex
11A Hot
Cell Annex
222-S Analytical
Laboratory
REDOX Canyon
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222-S Analytical Laboratory
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222-S Laboratory Analyses
• Waste tank retrieval
-Radiochemistry, organics, inorganics, wet chemistry
• Tank waste phase characterization, process chemistry, and
solubility studies
• Tank and pipe corrosion studies
• Separation, stabilization and/or treatment of selected
waste streams
• Forensics solids analysis
• Vadose zone characterization
• Miscellaneous environmental and waste characterization
• Industrial Hygiene (IH) and environmental vapor analyses
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222-S Laboratory Contractors
WRPS
- Analytical method development
- Process tests
- Special project analyses/investigations
- Organic vapor analyses
- Facility operations and maintenance
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222-S Laboratory Contractors (Cont’d)
WAI
- Provides routine inorganic, organic,
and radioanalytical analyses
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222-S Analytical Accreditations
WRPS
• American Industrial Hygiene Association
Laboratory Accreditation Program
WAI
• American Industrial Hygiene Association
Laboratory Accreditation Program
• Washington State Department of Ecology
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Tank Farms Organic Vapor Chemicals
of Potential Concern (COPC)
• Comprise a different target compound list than
that of EPA TO-15/17
• Some of the compounds are formed due to
nitration and radiolytic degradation of organics
• Standards are not available for many COPCs so
their concentrations can only be estimated as
tentatively identified compounds (TICs) by GC/MS
methods of analysis
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Types of Vapor Samples
Routine IH personal and area
Environmental tank stack emissions
IH tank headspace characterization
Pilot studies for area and personal canister
sampling in the tank farms
PPE regulator cartridge testing
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Thermal Desorption Unit (TDU) Tubes
Used to capture VOCs and semi VOCs
Lightweight for personal monitoring
May sample large volumes of air
Must not exceed breakthrough volume
Analyzed by GC/MS per modified EPA TO-17
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Evacuated Canisters
• Used to sample whole air
• May allow for repeat analysis
• Can capture some analytes that TDU tubes cannot
(e.g. perm gases, C2 hydrocarbons)
• Can take an instantaneous grab sample
• Analyzed by GC/MS per modified EPA TO-15
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GC/MS Canister Autosampler
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Tank Headspace Samples
• Analytes collected on TDU tubes, sorbent tubes,
and in canisters
• Sample head is lowered down into tank headspace
at varying depths
• TDU tubes, canisters, Hg and NH3 sorbent tubes
are analyzed at 222-S Laboratory
• Some sorbent tubes are analyzed at offsite
laboratories for various analytes depending on the
radioactivity level
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Sample Head
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Assembling Sample Head
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Off-Site Commercial Laboratories
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Nine laboratories total: 6 IH and 3 environmental
laboratories for analyses not performed at 222-S
Laboratory
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Eight of these laboratories are audited by the
DOE’s Consolidated Audit Program (DOECAP)
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Types of Samples Analyzed by
Offsite Laboratories
• Miscellaneous IH vapor and bulk samples that are
not cost effective to analyze at 222S Laboratory
• Asbestos fiber counting and characterization
• Low and non-radioactive regulatory
environmental liquid and vapors
• Miscellaneous RCRA liquid and solid waste
• Overflow samples from 222-S Laboratory
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Samples Received at 222S
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FY2013
FY2014
FY2015
FY2016 (Est)
Fiscal Year
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Reasons for FY15 and FY16 Sample
Load Increases
• Increasing concerns over vapor exposures in the
tank farms
• Start-up operations at the evaporator in the tank
farms to reduce the volume of highly radioactive
tank waste
• Transfer of Effluent Treatment Facility to WRPS for
operation. Analysis of waste water samples are
required to determine acceptability for discharge
to a state approved land disposal site.
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Qualified DOECAP Laboratory
Auditors
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WRPS maintains three DOECAP laboratory
auditors, two of whom are lead auditors
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ORP maintains one DOECAP laboratory auditor
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DOECAP Laboratory Points of
Contact
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Jeff Cheadle, DOE ORP
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Glen Clark, WRPS
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Non-Radiological TSDF Audits
• WRPS utilizes one off-site, non-radiological TSDF
vendor for tank farms, 222-S laboratory and
contracted WTP hazardous wastes
• WRPS has conducted its own audit of this vendor
• The vendor sends waste to several different
facilities
• Some of these facilities are audited by DOECAP
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Radiological TSDF
WRPS utilizes one off-site radiological TSDF
vendor with four different facilities
All four facilities are audited by DOECAP
WRPS participates annually in the DOECAP audit
of the local facility in Washington state
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Qualified DOECAP TSDF Auditors
WRPS maintains three DOECAP TSDF auditors
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DOECAP TSDF Point of Contact
Jeff Cheadle, DOE ORP
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